Private Matter

September 21, 2005|Mary Ann Manos WESTON

Re the Sept. 15 article, "Restraining order sought after fight," by Lisa J. Huriash: The contrast between the hurricane-battered lives of so many in New Orleans and your local news reporting on a scuffle between two women in Plantation seems to speak volumes about either our community or its reporting. Are we so shallow that the private domestic issues of "personal family matters" should be reported in great detail?

At a time when so many of our neighbors have lost so much in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this type of petty reporting is an embarrassment to our community.

Surely the Greater Plantation Chamber of Commerce and the city of Plantation have much more to offer than what your writer feels is newsworthy.